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RIP Sir Clive Sinclair
« on: September 16, 2021, 06:19:14 pm »
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Home computing pioneer Sir Clive Sinclair dies aged 81
Creator of the landmark ZX Spectrum and the less commercially successful C5 died after a long illness

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/sep/16/home-computing-pioneer-sir-clive-sinclair-dies-aged-81
 
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Re: RIP Sir Clive Sinclair
« Reply #1 on: September 16, 2021, 06:30:52 pm »
As a kid I spent quite some time typing code into a ZX81. I learnt a lot, so thank you, Sir Clive.
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Re: RIP Sir Clive Sinclair
« Reply #2 on: September 16, 2021, 07:21:13 pm »
RIP. My first computer was ZX-81. Those were the days...

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Re: RIP Sir Clive Sinclair
« Reply #3 on: September 16, 2021, 07:58:32 pm »
Me too. And before that as a teenager I had one of the Cambridge programmable calculators with its flimsy  egg-carton white plastic case - took me ages to save up for it!
 

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Re: RIP Sir Clive Sinclair
« Reply #4 on: September 17, 2021, 08:50:37 am »
Actually he goes further way way back than computers. He had products which included transitory radios and some of the first audio amp ICs.
A transistor radio from 1967.
https://www.petervis.com/Radios/sinclair-micromatic-pocket-radio/sinclair-micromatic-pocket-radio.html
« Last Edit: September 17, 2021, 08:53:39 am by Kerlin »
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Re: RIP Sir Clive Sinclair
« Reply #5 on: September 18, 2021, 01:35:55 am »
My Dad remembers cycling across Cambridge to their factory to collect a kit, at some point in the past.

I must say that his products always had a certain “Alan Sugar” vibe to them, and that’s not a compliment.
 

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Re: RIP Sir Clive Sinclair
« Reply #6 on: August 15, 2022, 12:29:27 pm »
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Re: RIP Sir Clive Sinclair
« Reply #7 on: August 16, 2022, 08:51:47 am »
He also did a shockingly poor early class D audio amp as a kit, and does anyone else remember the flat telly they did?
 

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Re: RIP Sir Clive Sinclair
« Reply #8 on: August 16, 2022, 04:18:24 pm »
Yep, I remember the time a friend of mine had one of his kit amps. The top of those transistors would just fall off all the time and I ended up replacing them with Japanese transistors. This was in the mid '70s!
He catered to the kids who couldn't afford to buy expensive stuff. It was fun putting them together!
 

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Re: RIP Sir Clive Sinclair
« Reply #9 on: August 16, 2022, 06:02:11 pm »
Dave did a teardown on the flatty tube in 2013.
 


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